Two hundred years ago, on Feb. 7, 1824, President James Monroe invited Revolutionary War hero Gen. Lafayette to the United States. Earlier, Lafayette had expressed his wish to visit this country for the first time since he had left it…
If you look at a map of the 13 colonies, you may notice something rather odd. Between New York and New Hampshire, there is a sliver of land that wasn’t included. It looks like Vermont was simply not invited to…
Let’s play a game of make-believe. Suppose that tomorrow the Philippines were to band together, send delegates to Davao, and draft a document detailing all the reasons they resented being a de facto outpost of the American empire. (READ MORE:…
The Constitution was designed to give government only a limited range of powers. Yet, government, today, wields a seemingly endless measure of power over the people. It’s time to ask: How limited was limited government meant to be? The framers of the Constitution…
The Old Line State’s highest court is handing Catholics a legal win, but by a narrow margin. The Maryland Supreme Court ruled last week that religious exemption clauses in the state’s employment laws protect religious institutions against claims of “religious,…
Many people in our polarized world rage over the idea that balance means compromising on principles. Give them their due: compromise on principle is evidence of moral weakness. Afraid to stand up for what is right, the compromiser temporizes, creates…
It’s the Fourth of July. Time for another celebration of America’s truly iconic holiday celebrating the Declaration of Independence. But it should also be a day to remember the very first Fourth, a full 247 years ago — which decidedly…
Though his image still is widely recognizable, and his name adorns cities, counties, towns, and streets across the country, today’s students assuredly know more about Taylor Swift or Justin Bieber than the victorious commander of the American Revolution and the…
I remember one of my first public debates with a liberal. It was 1989. I was editor of the editorial page in my campus newspaper, The Pitt News, which was published Monday through Thursday, with a huge print circulation of…
President Joe Biden’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson, who was confirmed by the Senate Thursday, shocked many people with her recent confession to the Senate Judiciary Committee that she could not define the word “woman,” explaining that…